What’s New

Azure AD Connect sync

Get-ADSyncScheduler cmdlet now returns a new Boolean property named SyncCycleInProgress. If the returned value is true, it means that there is a scheduled synchronization cycle in progress.

Destination folder for storing Azure AD Connect installation and setup logs has been moved from %localappdata%\AADConnect to %programdata%\AADConnect to improve accessibility to the log files.

AD FS management

Added support for updating AD FS Farm SSL Certificate.

Added support for managing AD FS 2016.

You can now specify existing gMSA (Group Managed Service Account) during AD FS installation.

You can now configure SHA-256 as the signature hash algorithm for Azure AD relying party trust.

Fixes

Azure AD Connect sync

Fixed an issue which causes Azure AD Connect wizard to fail if the display name of the Azure AD Connector does not contain the initial onmicrosoft.com domain assigned to the Azure AD tenant.

Fixed an issue which causes Azure AD Connect wizard to fail while making connection to SQL database when the password of the Sync Service Account contains special characters such as apostrophe, colon and space.

Fixed an issue which causes the error “The dimage has an anchor that is different than the image” to occur on an Azure AD Connect server in staging mode, after you have temporarily excluded an on-premises AD object from syncing and then included it again for syncing.

Fixed an issue which causes the error “The object located by DN is a phantom” to occur on an Azure AD Connect server in staging mode, after you have temporarily excluded an on-premises AD object from syncing and then included it again for syncing.

AD FS management

Fixed an issue where Azure AD Connect wizard does not update AD FS configuration and set the right claims on the relying party trust after Alternate Login ID is configured.

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This version is the first version in three months for Azure AD Connect and it appears to be a version that will be delivered through Azure AD Connect’s Automatic Upgrade feature (when using Express Settings).

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